The Sound of the Crowd

But…

Amid at Cartoon Brew has some scornful words for the execs at Warner Bros. Animation, who apparently have “junked the original Loonatics designs and made new ones because an 11-year-old started a petition saying he didn’t like the characters.”

I agree with much of what Amid has to say. Especially “If you truly believe in the quality and value of your product, you don’t change it every time somebody in the public raises an objection.”

But I think he’s overreacting to what seems to me clearly an attempt by those execs to spin their way into putting a good face on a PR nightmare. Nobody liked the “Loonatics” designs; they were mocked in animation-specific blogs like Cartoon Brew, more general blogs written by animation fans (like this one), and the MSM. This just gives them a day or so of getting to play that “see how we listen to the children” card.


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